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To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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